I can confirm I am having this same issue on my Galaxy 8+. Thought at first it was happening due to cable movement, however I tested this with a completely movement-free setup and its still happening. Needless to say, listening to music with these pops sucks major.

so apparently i may have a fix for this guys, after this long I messed around in my settings since. In Developer Options theres this tab called quick settings developer tiles, and in there for some odd reason even when my phone wasnt in power saver this setting has been on. Probably causing performance degration, so turn this off. Give this a shot and tell me if it helps you guys too. Theres still a crackle when i adjust my volume but as long as you dont change it too much it doesn't bother me anymore.

so apparently i may have a fix for this guys, after this long I messed around in my settings since. In Developer Options theres this tab called quick settings developer tiles, and in there for some odd reason even when my phone wasnt in power saver this setting has been on. Probably causing performance degration, so turn this off. Give this a shot and tell me if it helps you guys too. Theres still a crackle when i adjust my volume but as long as you dont change it too much it doesn't bother me anymore.

this actually didn't fix only worked temporarily. oddly enough tonight I noticed it

I am a new owner of a Samsung Galaxy S8 and with SoundCloud being my favorite platform its really annoying to have the crackling on just SoundCloud especially when the S6 had no issues. I might've found a solution that for me eliminated a lot of crackling and sound hiccups. I just tried this and I hope I'm right because I just went through 2 songs that normally get cracking and was pleasantly surprised to hear none. This solution only works for headphones and ear buds because the setting is locked to it. On Settings go to Sounds and Vibration and scroll down to the bottom to see Sound Quality and Effects. The option UHQ Upscaler should be grayed out until you plug headphones in and then it becomes available. I turned it on and the crackling was essentially eliminated despite I slight crackle when playing songs, but it does not continue on like it used to. Hope this helps.

I believe it's a memory issue with how Soundcloud is handled in the system RAM. I have other various issues with Soundcloud, all resulting from switching to any other app while Soundcloud is handled as a running task and not the foreground application. Crackling audio is just the tip of the iceberg. Frozen video ads (why video ads for an audio app..I don't get that)(this issues even while Soundcloud is in the foreground, but only if I've switched apps and back), can't remember my last viewed page, switching playlists, closing altogether when I get a non-system notification or any audio playback, playback continues to another artist (usually random) if kept in the background when a playlist isn't selected to play, spectrum visualization is broken for many tracks and doesn't fix until it hits the end of the graph, in the middle of the track (makes for difficult navigation..).... Oh..and even frozen video ads while playing the next track with no way to change tracks from the ad screen (play screen).

Clear app data? Sure. Uninstall and clear all data? Absolutely. Restart phone? You bet. When there's enough system memory used, it doesn't matter. And I've got 4 gigs, with at least 1.2 gigs of free ram leftover, as well. I would love to pay for ad free, but the experience isn't worth it, and I've been using Soundcloud for a few years. Why isn't there an option in the app to submit bugs? If not for everyone, how about random heavy users? Love the web version on my PC, though.

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